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23 November, 2005

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, elected president of Liberia, is the first woman to lead an African country.

23 November, 2003

Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.

23 November, 1998

Agreement between Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his rival, prince Norodom Ranariddh.

23 November, 1996

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 123.

23 November, 1996

The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization.

23 November, 1993

Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.

23 November, 1990

The first all woman expedition to the south pole (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians), sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.

23 November, 1985

Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the hijacked jetliner, but 60 people die in the raid.

23 November, 1984

Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie throws a game-winning 48-yard Hail Mary pass to Gerard Phelan to defeat the University of Miami Hurricanes 47-45. It is one of the most famous plays in American college football history.

23 November, 1981

Iran-Contra Affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

23 November, 1980

A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people.

23 November, 1979

In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.

23 November, 1976

Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.

23 November, 1971

The representatives of the Peoples Republic of China first attended the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, as Chinas representatives (See China and the United Nations).

23 November, 1963

The first episode of the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, An Unearthly Child, airs on the BBC.

23 November, 1962

United Airlines Flight 297 crashes killing all 17 on-board.

23 November, 1959

General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for a "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals."

23 November, 1955

The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.

23 November, 1954

For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the peak it reached just before the 1929 crash.

23 November, 1946

The Workers Party of South Korea is founded.

23 November, 1943

World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

23 November, 1943

World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.

23 November, 1936

The first edition of Life is published.

23 November, 1934

An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, which lay well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.

23 November, 1914

The US Army retreats from Mexico.

23 November, 1903

Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners strike.

23 November, 1903

Opera tenor Enrico Caruso makes his American debut in New York City with the Metropolitan Opera in Rigoletto.

23 November, 1895

The first ever Backyard Brawl rivalry match-up between Pitt Panthers and West Virginia Mountaineers takes place.

23 November, 1890

King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become Queen.

23 November, 1889

The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

23 November, 1876

Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.

23 November, 1869

In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched - one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day.

23 November, 1867

The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England for rescuing two Irish men from jail.

23 November, 1863

American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins - Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee and counter-attack Confederate troops.

23 November, 1844

Independence of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark.

23 November, 1654

French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense mystical vision that marks him for life.

23 November, 1644

Areopagitica by John Milton is published.

23 November, 1531

The Second war of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.

23 November, 1499

Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.

23 November, 1248

Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.

23 November, 1227

Polish Prince Leszek I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gasawa.

23 November, 800

Charlemagne arrives at Rome to examine the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.

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